Is It Really a Secret? is an album with surprising depth. What on the surface appear nice
little bedroom pop songs are actually documents of very real emotions... the sentimentality and
earnestness on show here is not some brazen declaration, rather the
colouring of an interior world that manifests as neurotic awkwardness.
However whirlwind and volatile, the love is not one acted out with a
Hollywood-style directness, instead the thoughts and feeling are
repressed, played over internally so as to maintain face. This lack of
communication is intrinsic to the nostalgia of the Moon Racer aesthetic,
because it allows an imagination of what might have been—an iteration
where interaction was easier, braver, more open, and the relationship
everlasting.